stereotype
IPA: stˈɛriʌtaɪp
noun
- A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
- (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
- (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
- (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
verb
- (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
- (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
- (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
- (transitive, figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
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